Allison Mullins’ Christmas wish was to find the man who saved her life, and it’s a wish KOCO 5 News has helped come true.

KOCO 5 News first brought you the plea of the woman who nearly died in a car accident on Thursday. Mullins called the mystery man “an angel.” Her prayers to find her angel have been answered.

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Jim Deal often talked about the day of the accident with his family, but he had no idea Mullins was looking for him until his daughter saw her plea on the news.

Mullins nearly died on June 4. She broke her back, her leg and other bones when her car hydroplaned and flipped multiple times. The vehicle landed deep in a ditch near Penn Square Mall where no one could see it.

She took six hours to crawl out of the mangled metal to look for help. A black truck stopped and a stranger got out to help. That stranger was Deal.

Six months later, when Deal came to her front door, Mullins embraced him tightly and got that chance to say “thank you.” Allison said she is alive only because of his actions.

“He was my hero that morning,” she said.

Deal said Mullins is the real hero.

“She's the one that got hurt,” Deal said. “She's the one that crawled herself out of that ditch. I’m just a guy that stopped by and helped her.”

Mullins was overcome with emotion when she heard the 911 call made that morning.

“We need an ambulance,” Deal told the dispatcher.

Also on the recording is Deal comforting Mullins just before hanging up.

“We got people coming,” he said on the call.

Deal said he will continue to support Mullins. She is on the road to recovery and goes to physical therapy several times a week.